Abstract
The cooling performance of air-cooled condenser (ACC) is susceptible to adverse impacts of ambient winds. In this work, three kinds of lateral double-layered deflectors installed under the ACC platform are proposed to weaken the unfavorable effects of cross winds. Through CFD simulation methods, the main parameters of thermo-flow performances of a 2×660 MW direct dry cooling system are obtained, by which it can be concluded that the deflectors can effectively reduce the inlet air temperatures while enhance the mass flow rates of upwind fans due to the guiding effect, especially at high wind speeds, while the improvement of cooling capacity of ACCs in the 0° wind direction is weak. The inclined-vertical deflectors are superior to others in performance improvement of ACCs for all cases, which can reduce the turbine back pressure by 12.15% when the wind speed is 12 m/s, so they can be applied to the performance enhancement of ACCs under windy conditions in practical engineering.
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Abbreviations
- e :
-
exponent of wind speed formula
- f n :
-
polynomial coefficient of the fan pressure drop equation
- g n :
-
polynomial coefficient for the fan tangential velocity
- h :
-
convection heat transfer coefficient/W·m−2·K−1
- h′:
-
empirical convection heat transfer coefficient/W·m−2·K−1
- h n :
-
polynomial coefficient for convection heat transfer coefficient
- h s :
-
exhaust steam enthalpy/J·kg−1
- h wa :
-
condensate water enthalpy/J·kg−1
- k L :
-
the loss coefficient of flow
- L :
-
the finned tube bundles’ thickness/m
- m :
-
mass flow rate/kg·s−1
- N :
-
number
- p :
-
pressure/Pa
- Q :
-
heat transfer rate/kW
- q :
-
heat flux/W·m−2
- R p :
-
ratio of back pressure reduction
- r n :
-
polynomial factor for pressure loss coefficient
- S :
-
source term in governing equations
- t :
-
temperature/K
- u :
-
velocity/m·s−1
- u j :
-
velocity component/m·s−1
- z :
-
vertical distance to the ground/m
- Γ :
-
diffusion coefficient/m2·s−1
- ρ :
-
density/kg·m−3
- Φ :
-
heat rejection/W
- φ :
-
variable
- 2:
-
outlet
- a:
-
air
- B:
-
back
- d:
-
deflector
- f:
-
axial flow fan
- o:
-
original
- θ :
-
peripheral direction
- ref:
-
reference
- s:
-
steam
- wa:
-
water
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The National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51476055, 51821004), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2015CB251503) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2018QN036) are gratefully acknowledged for supporting this research.
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Huang, W., Huang, X., Yang, L. et al. Influences of Lateral Double-Layered Deflectors on Cooling Performance of Air-Cooled Condenser. J. Therm. Sci. 30, 2164–2177 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-021-1443-2
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